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“Despite my mother being the best possible sport when his family visited, he picked a fight with her over something trivial because he couldn’t acknowledge his truth: when he wasn’t at the center of things, he felt small. A venom he didn’t understand filled his throat. To avoid choking, he spat it at whomever was closest, swelling with self-loathing disguised as self-importance.”
― Lisa Nikolidakis, No One Crosses the Wolf: A Memoir

“Whenever I feel unworthy, I deny myself food. It is a way of literally making myself small and weak, and yet, at the same time, I felt that hunger gave me mental clarity.”
― Danielle Prescod, Token Black Girl

“It’s hard to believe she could have thought of herself as a good mother, but I guess narcissistic people don’t have much sense of what they are really like or how they make other people feel.”
― Anderson Cooper, The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss

“I believed my pleasant life would last forever. I now knew the error of that thinking. Life could change in an instant.”
― Enjeela Ahmadi-Miller, The Broken Circle: A Memoir of Escaping Afghanistan